Joshua Essex is the co-founder and CTO of Recidiviz, a tech nonprofit that aims to lessen incarceration rates and improve outcomes for the American justice system.

Joshua shared this story about his cousins and what led him and a small group of friends to start Recidiviz.

"I want to alleviate as much human suffering as quickly as I can."

Joshua dives into the complexities of gathering and interpreting criminal justice data. 

During COVID, data played an integral role in saving lives. Recidiviz built an  epidemiological model  tailored to prisons and jails that was used by government agencies during their COVID response.

For anyone with a technical skill set, Joshua encourages you to consider what problems you're most passionate about. If there's something you care about, there's an organization working to solve that problem that needs your help.

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"There are many opportunities for new companies to offer a fresh voice to reset people's expectations on what's possible for fashion companies and retail."

Greg Sakorafis is the head of shopping experience engineering at THE YES. With its AI machine learning model, THE YES aims to bring more enjoyment and ease back into retail.

“It used to be called retail therapy, and I feel like a lot of the time it’s retail anxiety.” Greg gives his take on how the shopping experience has changed in the last several years.

With technology, we have more awareness of the impact on people’s mental well-being. Greg emphasizes the need for careful application and consideration of the emotions involved in the retail and fashion industry. 

At the core, businesses should be serving people to make their lives better. To have an overall positive effect for people and then repeat it within the company. 

THE YES is currently hiring for several positions. Learn more on their careers page.

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Ian Uriarte, founder and CEO at Timbergrove, joins Kris Reddy on this episode of Life in the Cloud. 

Timbergrove aims to predict when an unforeseen event will occur. That way, action can be taken before disaster strikes. 

Think of a submersible oil rig in the ocean. If there's a problem, they have to shut off operations for one day. The opportunity cost is millions of dollars in one day.

Timbergrove has also used its solutions for tracking pitching optimization in baseball. It built a mobile and web application. The app's dashboard gave analytics like the baseball's incision angle, speed, and the quadrant of the strike zone a throw would go through.

Timbergrove is currently hiring a senior front-end developer who is familiar with UX and UI. Learn more here and listen to the episode to hear more from Ian on IoT applications. 

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Mastering communications with a business-centric focus has been instrumental in its continued success.

Nazgol Khamneipur joins host Kris Reddy on this episode of Life in the Cloud. At the time of the interview, Nazgol was program manager of Oracle Cloud at CherryRoad Technologies. Now she is the director of Oracle Cloud. 

Nazgol provides insight into what makes CherryRoad’s implementations execute optimally. A clear understanding and translation of what are the pain points are vital. 

"The best way to learn: make mistakes and see what happens when you make mistakes and figure out how to fix it." 

Nazgol shares her enthusiasm for more women entering the tech space, which has always been a predominantly male industry. Within CherryRoad, many women are taking on leadership, project management, and executive roles. 

Listen in to hear more fascinating tidbits and questions to ask for a smooth implementation process. 

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Director of global alliances at CrowdStrike, Vivek Kumar, joins host Kris Reddy on this episode. 

Now a household name in cybersecurity, Vivek shares the inception point and the many innovations CrowdStrike has made.

A sensor called Falcon can scale with the addition of 10s or 100s of new servers. Falcon can work on a personal laptop to EC2 Instance. Cloud-native and cloud-delivered, there's no need to restart anything as the network scales up. 

Vivek manages CrowdStrike's partnership with AWS, noting that they complement each other's business. CrowdStrike also works with and can be applied to on-prem networks to any cloud provider.

Vivek’s career has spanned programming to sales and marketing, and he provides insights into the learning he has gained.

"We don't realize lots of experiences in our lives, how they will come to play to help even more. You will not know unless you get into those types of situations." 

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There are always new customer requests and innovative features to be released, as VP of Product Management at Guidewire Software, Gal Josefsberg points out.

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy and Gal cover everything from employee enablement to customer-centricity.

Gal gives adoption as the key metric in releasing new features for their customer base. Are people using it? If not, why not? With any new feature or add-on, consider how many customers want it and will actually use it.

Gal goes on to speak on Guidewire's successes and challenges in migrating to the cloud. Guidewire built up its legacy software on-premise, over 20 years in the making. 

Insurance carriers are experimenting with new arrays of coverage—everything from pet insurance to cyber risk insurance. This requires Guidewire to be nimble with its offerings.

Guidewire is hiring, and Gal encourages those interested to do their research. He stands by Guidewire being an incredible place to work. Check out their openings here.

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CIO of Gainsight, Karl Mosgofian joins host Kris Reddy on this episode of Life in the Cloud. 

Over 30 years in tech as a programmer and business analyst, Karl is aware of the changing trends in the industry. He foresees more involvement with less technical things, giving users a more straightforward approach to using their applications at maximum performance.

Karl and Kris also hash out specifics of the CIO role and discuss how the dynamics of cybersecurity have changed in the last three decades. 

At startups, Karl predicts one of the earliest hires will be responsible for customer success. This role will be pivotal in retaining customers. 

The model is working for Gainsight as they're hiring like crazy and seeing astounding growth in their company. Check out their careers page to learn more. 

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Host Kris Reddy interviews Cory Hymel at Gigster. Formerly the Senior Solutions Architect, Cory recently shifted to Gigster's Head of Blockchain. 

Cory simplifies blockchain into digestible bites. At its core, it's a distributed ledger.

You visit your bank's website to see your balance and inherently trust them to be correct. Now imagine the vast amount of transfers coming in and out of the thousands of accounts at each bank. Again, we trust them to be accurate. 

The difference with blockchain is that ownership of ledgers is in the hands of all the bank's users. It's a democratization of ledger data. 

Now imagine this concept applied to hospitals, healthcare, and patient records across the country.

We also dive into cryptocurrency mining, NFTs, and more in this episode. 

If you're an expert in the blockchain and all things cryptocurrency, Cory wants to hear from you! 

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With an extensive tech background, Kamal was taking programming classes in high school. This was before the internet was fully deployed. For over a decade while freelancing, he developed custom databases, CRMs and helped companies shift over to the cloud.

"When you move to the cloud, it frees you from having to maintain hardware that isn't your core business."

Kamal has a way of breaking down complex tech topics into understandable bits. From the start, he explains, solid performance logging and monitoring will help smooth out cloud operations. 

He shares how he helped reduce costs with their operation, simplifying systems to their minimum required usage. For instance, they were running five app servers with four workers. Now only using two servers and two employees, they're still able to provide live updates, even with their thousands of users on their platform at any time. 

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Mark Van de Wiel, CTO at HVR, joins me for another episode of Life in the Cloud. HVR is in the data replication space. It serves large enterprise customers like Pitney Bowes, Lufthansa Airlines, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Fifteen years ago, the most extensive data warehouses used maybe ten terabytes total. Nowadays, HVR is handling ten terabytes of data changes in a single day. Instrumental to their continued successes, Mark alludes to HVR having been scalable and highly efficient.

"What can we do to help our customers be successful in adopting some of these technologies and essentially solve their data problems?" Mark shares insights into how HVR anticipates changes in the industry to meet their customers' needs best.

Mark teaches about the least intrusive approach to capturing changes out of a transactional database system. It's through an innovation called Change Data Capture, and blockchain plays a role. Listen to this episode to learn more.

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Prefect is an open-source workflow management system. Through its cloud API, it allows its users to own their execution environment. 

Chris shares many exciting insights into the beginnings of a startup. The earlier the stage of a startup, the more landscape you have to define your position. "I like taking bets on myself, and going to a startup is the fundamental bet that I can do something here and turn this into a valuable, interesting tool for developers to use." 

Check out Prefect’s careers page to learn more about open positions.

If you excel at and enjoy math but are unsure of its practicality, you'll want to give this episode a listen. Chris relates several usage cases of math to software and programming. 

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On this episode of Life in the Cloud, Eyal Arazi, Product Marketing Manager at Radware joins the show. 

Eyal points out that on-prem environments are typically self-contained. Cloud environments rely on shared API, shared identities, and shared roles.

If there were an attack on a web server with on-prem, that's as far as the attack would go. In the cloud, the attackers could piggyback off the web server to access the database that sits behind it. 

"Think of it like skipping stones in a pond. You're not interested in that first hop, but you're interested in the subsequent hops."

Eyal reminds us that on-prem security has been around for 40 years while cloud security is still in its infancy. It doesn't make it less secure than on-prem.

Hear about the key issues to consider to securely move to a cloud environment and much more in this episode. 

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It is a need if you're running an e-commerce site or handling customer data of any sort. The increase of 'bad bots' in the last couple of years is hard to fathom.

On this episode of Life in the Cloud, I interview Benjamin Fabre. He's the CTO and Co-Founder of DataDome, a company that safeguards websites against nefarious bots.

Benjamin points out, “Any website is exposed on the internet because they are using many CDNs. They have many applications. They are running their software inside different cloud providers. The exposure is wider than it was in the past. It's hard to be protected now.”

Doubling their revenue over the last three years, DataDome is still growing. Check out their website for a potential career with DataDome.

Listen to this episode to hear more from Benjamin. How did they discover the presence of unregulated bot traffic? What is in store for the future of DataDome and this subset of cybersecurity?

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In this episode, host Kris Reddy interviews the SVP of Strategy at SenecaGlobal, Michael O'Malley. 

"We're trying to take what they have and move it to a more scalable, more sustainable model in a cloud-based environment."

Michael points out the importance of leveraging analytics in their business. They want to help their clients' products be as useful to their customer base as possible.

Cases in which the cloud might not make sense involve high risk. Take a finance application with sensitive information that only a few people use.

Speaking of risk, Michael also dives into cybersecurity intricacies. Responsibilities shift when moving to the cloud. It's not a matter of it being any more or less safe. 

Michael sees huge growth areas around cloud-native software development. SenecaGlobal wants to help its customers take advantage of flexibility, agility, and analytics via the cloud. 

Listen in to this episode to gain more enlightening insights on the cloud from Michael.

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David P. Mariani, CTO and Co-Founder of AtScale, joins us on this episode of Life in the Cloud.

By living the problem and walking in your customers' shoes, you’re better able to develop a product.

Don’t take David’s advice for granted. He’s been a part of several successful startups in his expansive career. All his jobs built on top of one another to solidify his industry-leading expertise and understanding of data.

The importance of adding a semantic layer for interpretation makes all the difference. David sees the industry of data analytics becoming more simplified. By making the machine do more, humans can become smarter.

“The key is to bring the data to the user, rather than bringing the user to the data.”

What else is in store for the future of data analytics? How are we going to be using data to predict the future?

Listen in now to learn more from David. 

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We’re fortunate to have the CEO and Co-Founder of Conexus, Eric Daimler, join us for this episode. 

Eric carries a wide breadth of experience, from Professional Investing to Policy Advisor and Author. He taught at Carnegie Mellon and worked under the Obama Administration.

Eric emphatically speaks on the potent potential of Category Theory. When working with billions and even trillions of data points, this branch of math holds the key to faultless data.

Eric provides real-world applications where Conexus is using Category Theory, including ride-sharing apps such as Uber, investing applications, and diabetes datasets. When looking at big data, there's a necessity for zero mistake data. With thousands of ambiguities, this becomes impractical.

Category theory's relevance and applications are only taking off. Eric recommends his Co-Founder's book to learn more on the subject, which you can check out at the link below.

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/category-theory-sciences

From 200 to 500 employees in two years, Rippling provides an evolving HR software system. In this episode Rippling’s Manager of Implementation, Nathan Siswanto, joins the show.

How has Rippling cultivated a successful implementation practice?

Nathan shares the greatest need for having an open communication process. Then continuously iterating the process.

How did Rippling get started, and how have they managed its exponential growth? What's in store for the future of Rippling and the HR software industry? 

Nathan encourages you to check out the open positions if you're looking to get into tech and be challenged with a growth-oriented role.

Listen in to hear further implementation insights and learn more from Nathan.

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We have the Head of Business Systems at Benchling, Shreenath Panditrao, join the show in this episode.

Born at MIT in 2012, Benchling is a company that accelerates research and development. Built via the cloud, Benchling had in mind easing the process of scientific collaboration. 

Shreenath oversees a suite of products, hundreds of different software packages. They allow Benchling to be flexible in addressing the ever-changing needs of their customers. 

Shreenath emphasizes the product mindset over a project mindset to sustain growth in the industry. 

Head over to their website if you'd like to run a free trial or request a live demo to see how Benchling works in action. 

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With 16 years of experience in IT, cybersecurity, and the Navy, Bob Fabien Zinga carries a tremendous wealth of knowledge. Luckily, we have him as our guest on this episode of Life in the Cloud. 

Currently Director of Information Security at Directly, Bob shares his wisdom on the changing dynamics of leadership from the 20th to the 21st century. "No matter what you do, no matter what industry or job, you really need to become a leader—an effective leader—in the 21st century to be successful."

“Leadership is influence,” Bob says. 

What cybersecurity issues does the Navy deal with? How do these issues compare with commercial business? Bob provides anecdotal evidence for the necessity of cybersecurity across all of IT. Listen in now to learn more about these topics. 

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IT Manager of Fivetran, Kevin Connole, joins us in this episode of Life in the Cloud. Fivetran is a SaaS company that automates data integration to simplify data analytics. 

Kevin highlights several features that add up to tremendous time savers for their company, like single sign-ons, consolidating software packages you currently have, and many more.

In particular, there’s one software that Kevin ends up mentioning more than any other. Listen in to learn about the biggest difference-maker for Fivetran.

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We have the Corporate Engineering Program Manager at Checkr, Inc., Brian Martinek, join us on this episode of Life in the Cloud. Checkr pioneered the first API for background checks. Then exploding demand from companies like Uber and Lyft led to dramatic growth.

Brian has seen the recent implementation of several new software systems at Checkr, from setting up a cloud data warehouse to keeping up with the scalability of their company. He shares challenges and gives recommendations to companies considering new software systems.

Listen in to this episode to gain more enlightening insights on optimizing your software systems setup.

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, the Head of IT Security at Hint Health, VuDang Tran, teaches us more about the healthcare space.

Hint Health operates 100% via the cloud and has a niche within direct primary care, boldly challenging the typical patient, insurance, doctor model in healthcare.

VuDang provides insights into the shifting healthcare space. He also highlights the strategy to combat present and future threats to cybersecurity, detailing the intricacies and patterns of cyberattacks within the healthcare space.

Listen in to this episode to hear VuDang take us back to the first questions he asked when joining the startup. With practical advice for any small business, you won’t want to miss this episode.

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From Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Carly Wild has served in the cloud space for 14 years. Working as a Partner Sales Manager, Carly joins this episode of Life in the Cloud to give us a more in-depth look into GCP.

Carly takes us back to GCP’s origins, and how GCP began with their storage solution back in 2008. She offers up that the services and tech have been around as long as Google.

Next, Kris puts Carly in the hot seat, asking how a business would determine which cloud provider is the best fit. Then, Carly delves into trends in the industry. She imagines innovations into the future surrounding data. Further extrapolating information from data into practical uses is expected.

Carly also shares her favorite part about working for GCP. Listen to the episode now to learn more.

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In this week’s episode of Life in the Cloud, Kris Reddy interviews his friend Nick Gardner, the Executive Director of Watershed Collaborative. Nick shares his founder story and provides enlightenment on the VTS space.

VTS, or Visual Thinking Strategies, is an education model formulated for museums. Now, Nick and Watershed are working to transform the classroom through the usage of VTS.

The problem has been tinkering with VTS to allow it to be more widely adopted, having it add immediate value in the classroom, and to do so at scale. 

Nick highlights the advantages of VTS, including the development of critical thinking skills. Its ability to nurture students’ self-confidence allows for more open sharing of ideas.

Nick believes VTS will have an impact on the overall culture and ethos of schools. How else could it make a difference? Listen to this episode to learn more.

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McKinsey Quarterly makes that claim in their recent quarterly article, titled Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs.

Demonstrated from the start of the article, the value of cloud computing is still at the tip of the iceberg. CEO of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel gives credit to the cloud for their development of a Covid vaccine.

Where does McKinsey calculate the unrealized trillion dollars? 

In this episode of Life in the Cloud, Jake Jorgovan and host Kris Reddy delve more into the details of the article. An estimated two-thirds of the economic opportunities are within innovation. About one-third of it lies within rejuvenation or optimization.

What industries are poised to make the most out of the trillion-dollar market growth? Listen in now to learn this and more about the seven demand drivers making up the cloud opportunity.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• McKinsey - Cloud’s Trillion-Dollar Prize

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, Jake Jorgovan and Kris Reddy review a Wall Street Journal article. The article outlines new legislation in Australia. Now, Facebook and Google have to pay local Australian news companies to post their content. 

When should a platform be required to pay the publisher? In which situations should that payment be required? What if Google and Facebook didn’t make money on ads?

We discuss the anomaly of leverage that Google and Facebook carry. What would happen if Google shut down in a country?

How do you regulate or even break up companies like Google or Facebook? Hear us hypothesize and postulate these questions and more on this episode.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Wall Street Journal

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What is there to like and dislike in entrepreneurship? What would you have done differently? 

Francois speaks and reflects on the evolution as his entrepreneurial life has unfolded. "Everything that you have to do to steer the business forward is what's fun and fascinating." 

An admirable vision, Francois shares what he envisions in the future for Enso Connect, from short-term rentals on autopilot to the possibility of their own branded tiny homes. He even wants to be at the forefront in providing sustainability solutions.

Listen to the episode now to hear more practical advice from Francois. What advice would you give to someone interested in entrepreneurship?

Feel free to reach out to Francois on Instagram and Twitter @ensoconnect or at https://ensoconnect.com/.

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy interviews his friend. The Founder and CEO of Enso Connect, Francois shares the story behind his company.

What started as property management software shifted to a guest communication platform. Francois emphasizes his repeated mantra. “There’s one solution to it all, to continuously think every problem has a solution.”

Through shifting his company’s vision, he steered Enso Connect through Covid times. In the startup phase, it was about assessing if they were solving the right problem. In turn, they were fluid in providing a solution.

Listen in to this episode to learn more about Enso Connect. They’ve grown from 60 homes on a letter of intent to over 22,500 rooms on their platform in a year. 

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, Jake Jorgovan and Kris Reddy discuss a recent article from the Wall Street Journal. Referenced below, the authors of the article propose a solution to big tech’s power on censorship.

The solution involves middleware and integrating with the tech platforms. In theory, putting the power back into the hands of the users makes perfect sense. But, it is much more complicated than that.

Avoiding political opinions, Jake and Kris discuss AWS shutting down the Parler. Was that a breach of contract? 

What’s worse - a business driven by profit or a business driven by politics? Listen in to this episode to learn more. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter

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In this new episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy discusses with Jake Jorgovan, reviewing how demand for MSPs took off as companies started outsourcing their IT aspects, from network monitoring to cybersecurity, and now to the cloud. As IT demands and complexities have increased, so has the MSP's business structure.  

Kris highlights the value-adds of why companies hire out to MSPs, with the keyword being expertise. What are the costs associated with not hiring out specialized IT services to MSPs?

Listen now to hear Kris’ predictions on future trends in the MSP industry. Why does Kris compare MSPs to other service industries like investment banks and law firms? How will the structure of the industry change?

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Which vendor may be the most startup-friendly? Kris and Jake hash out what business owners need to consider when shopping for the best cloud vendor, like identifying a company’s central IT objectives. Are any of the three willing to negotiate or provide discounts?

Listen now to hear more insights into the three industry giants and Kris's recommendations on searching for the ideal cloud vendor.  

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Sharing insight into the industry's future, Kris explains why companies haven’t solved the problem with hackers and what they’re after in breaking into companies’ intellectual property.  

Listen in now to hear more about the industry's golden opportunity, relating it to when defense contractors like Lockheed Martin became huge businesses during the cold war. In a future episode, Kris will delve more into cybersecurity implementation from the business perspective. 

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Is it possible that it’s more expensive for businesses to remain on-premise rather than not migrating to the cloud?

Listen to this episode as Kris emphasizes the importance of conducting a proper financial analysis and understanding where a company’s cloud expertise is for management to understand when they would break-even.  

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy fields questions from Diana Chen, digests the 60-page annual report by Flexera, and condenses it down into easily consumable points. 

How much time should current cloud optimization take? Kris gives insight into the lengthy process and how businesses can seize the greatest return on investment.

Listen now to gain additional feedback from Kris on how businesses best prioritize cloud adoption and how it varies depending on the individual company’s needs.  Is the future of cloud only going to grow, and how can small businesses take advantage of cloud to remove barriers to competing with big business?

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"What is the cloud?" Diana points out that most people are familiar with the term, having used Dropbox or Google Drive, but how is cloud different from what people think when they hear "cloud" mentioned?  

Painting a picture of the physical cloud, Kris highlights expansive server rooms, often taking up an entire floor of an office building, with flickering LED lights and cables running everywhere. Factoring in the real estate, heating, and cooling costs, it only made sense to move these massive data storage sites off-premise.

Give this episode a listen to hear Kris's recommendations on when companies still using on-premise servers to store data should move over to the cloud, the benefits of doing so, and why hiring a third-party company like Tuple Technologies for data migration and cloud management makes sense. Plus, Kris and Diana go over one super important thing not to overlook with data storage.  

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In this episode of Life in the Cloud, podcast host Kris Reddy walks through how managers and other business decision-makers can evaluate whether to hire an external managed services provider (MSP) to help support those efforts.

Kris recommends looking inward first - what exactly is the business trying to accomplish? Does the organization need end-to-end IT management support? Further, how much IT talent is available in the organization already? Do they have the right skills to support and maintain new technologies?

When choosing an MSP, Kris also recommends that companies evaluate what type of partner they want to have in an MSP. Is an out-of-the-box strategy sufficient, or does the company need something more customized to fit its unique needs?

Listen now to hear why Kris encourages organizations to review contracts in detail, leverage the tech savvy that already exists in the organization to help make this decision, and be sure to look for a partnership that will be valuable today and will grow and scale with the business in the future.

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Diana shares how she began her career as a lawyer, though she always suspected it was not the right field for her. She goes on to talk about the importance of embracing what you’re good at and making the big change from law to content marketing and strategy.

You’ll also hear perspectives from both Diana and Kris on what it’s like to be part of a startup and what listeners can expect from Diana’s own podcast, Startup Happy Hour. Perhaps most importantly, Diana and Kris wrap the conversation by chatting about learning from their mistakes along the way.

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Kris shares more about his background as a Silicon Valley native who began dabbling in the tech startup world even before graduating college. He also talks about leadership lessons learned from his time as president of several organizations while in college and as a United States Marine.

Kris explains how Tuple Technologies addresses clients’ needs using a consultative approach, leveraging strategic thinking and business acumen to build custom IT solutions.

Listen to this first episode to hear Kris’s fascinating story, dive a little deeper into what cloud technology actually is, and better understand how Kris’s background in international relations and economics will shape future conversations.

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Guests will include industry experts and leading practitioners in a variety of fields, both technological and beyond. With a background in international relations and economics, Kris and his guests will help listeners draw connections between tech trends and the bigger picture.

Kris was raised in Silicon Valley and has been exposed to the ways in which tech impacts all of us from a young age. That’s why this podcast is ideal not only for techies but for anyone interested in an insider’s take on Silicon Valley, including business strategists, hobbyists, and even students considering a tech career.

Listen now to learn more about Kris and why your Life in the Cloud begins today.  

You can find Kris on LinkedIn and learn more about Tuple Technologies here.

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